Swift's Tower

Castletownshend, known in Irish as Baile an Chaisleáin ('town of the castle'), developed around the fortified estate built by Colonel Richard Townesend in the late 17th century. The Townsend family—originally arriving in Cork as Cromwellian officers in the 1660s—accumulated substantial lands and expanded their castle throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, eventually controlling over 8,000 acre...